New Lifestreaming Plugin for Wordpress Based on Simplepie
December 4, 2007
I recently got word from Kieran Delaney about his new Lifestreaming plugin for Wordpress called Simplelife. It’s based on the Simplepie RSS parser instead of the built-in MagpieRSS one that has issues and is used by some of the other Wordpress Lifestreaming plugins out there.
It’s currently an Alpha version and although I haven’t tried it yet, it appears to offer some good functionality and have a nice layout. I’m hoping that a future version will make the addition (and editing) of the feeds easier. Perhaps from the admin dashboard as opposed to having to add / edit them in a php file.
Get the Simplelife Wordpress plugin here
See it in action here
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December 5th, 2007 at 12:44 am
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December 5th, 2007 at 7:52 am
[...] My Wordpress Plugin SimpleLife has been featured on popular lifestreaming blog http://lifestreamblog.com. [...]
December 10th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I’ve set up a modified version of this on my website and am loving it. It’s the best solution I’ve found so far for lifestreaming.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
It’s not exactly a plugin, more like a Wordpress page template with some script and CSS. It works, but I had to make a lot of modifications to make it work with my theme. Worth the effort, though.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
@Apollo, very nice implementation.
@Michael, tru, tru, but better than the older plugins I’ve tried in the past. btw, you are truly a gifted photographer.
December 19th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Thansk for the tip!
However: I couln’t get Simplelife configured right.
So I thought:
- What makes a lifestream “sustainable”? If every entry in the lifestream would be a blogpost in wordpress, my stream is as sustainable as wordpress. Making it possible in the future to migrate or upgrade to whatever Wordpress is developing.
- What can aggregate my content from over the web to wordpress? I started with wp-o-matic, but moved to “FeedWordpress” from Charles Johnson. Which pulls in my feeds from delicious, lastfm, twitter etc.
- A normal blogpost doesn’t look like a lifestream. So I just show the title of the posting.
- I use the new CategoryIcon from Ivan Georgiev. To show a nice icon at every post.
You can see it at work: wwww.joeldebruijn.nl
(yes, with 4 w’s: where, when, what, who…)
Keep up the good work!
December 31st, 2007 at 7:42 pm
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December 31st, 2007 at 7:58 pm
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April 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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